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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #421 on: August 14, 2013, 12:26:50 AM »

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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #422 on: September 12, 2013, 05:15:31 AM »

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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #423 on: September 12, 2013, 05:43:47 AM »

More like TARD-IS, amirite?
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #425 on: October 04, 2013, 02:28:22 AM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/wendy-davis-texas-governor_n_4039113.html

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“I had no real idea what the future looked like. Today, I see it pretty clearly. It’s looking right at me. It’s you. It’s all of you. And all of you deserve to have your voices heard. Because our future is brightest when it’s lit by everyone’s star. And that’s why, today, I’m proud to announce my candidacy to be the 48th governor of this great state.”
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #426 on: October 04, 2013, 02:33:55 AM »

Also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/kkk-rally-canceled_n_4024192.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

(I know it's HuffPo, but this is a relatively minor story).
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #427 on: October 04, 2013, 04:08:28 AM »

can you make it to the rally

no sorry i'm busy

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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #429 on: November 11, 2013, 04:53:13 PM »

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/11/families_dealing_with_mental_illness_need_support_too.2.html

This is not news per se, but a very nice little editorial nonetheless.

(Thad, you can move this somewhere else if appropriate).
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #430 on: November 21, 2013, 05:41:57 AM »

The Filibuster is gone.

Well, as far as appointments anyway.
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #431 on: November 21, 2013, 07:59:23 AM »

The Filibuster is gone.

Well, as far as appointments anyway.



I don't know what the women find. An attack womb or something.

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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #432 on: November 21, 2013, 08:13:48 AM »

If It Happened There: U.S. Restores Majority Rule in Legislature

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WASHINGTON, United States—In what analysts are calling a landmark step on the country’s path toward representative democracy, the U.S. government agreed today to allow most appointments to high offices to be approved by a majority vote. However, opposition lawmakers are crying foul, arguing that the change will allow the country’s embattled leader to seize more power.

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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #435 on: November 26, 2013, 10:53:51 PM »

Cheerful...until you get to the comments section.

Fuck an internet.
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #436 on: December 03, 2013, 12:30:06 PM »

http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/i-took-down-man-who-posted-hacked-topless-photo-my-daughter-internet?page=0%2C0&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

Proving once again that this stuff only works until you run into people who are smarter than you. Which tends to be a lower bar for folks like Moore than is imagined.
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #437 on: December 03, 2013, 04:46:33 PM »

Doesn't even need to be somebody smart (though it clearly was in this case), just somebody who's got the time, resources, and stubbornness to fight back.

Tactics like Moore's rely on his victims being too ashamed and scared to fight back.  That's how predators operate.

Laws has done more than take down the most notorious revenge porn site on the web.  She's created a roadmap.  She's made it easier for other people to do the same.  Mark Randazza (whose name you might recognize from the story) made quick work of Is Anybody Down?, a copycat site that added the interesting twist of extorting its victims to pay to have their photos removed.  (You gotta figure Moore is kicking himself for not thinking of that.)

There's also the turnabout element of the story.  People who make a habit of posting their enemies' names and home addresses on popular websites cry the loudest when it happens to them.

If you think "Most Hated Man on the Internet" is something you actually WANT to be, then you have not thought things through.
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #438 on: December 23, 2013, 07:34:27 AM »

Cops nab paedophile after tip-off from thief
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The suspect had reported a burglary at his home nine days earlier, listing several appliances as stolen but making no mention of his missing video camera and tapes, police said.
I don't know what the moral of the story is here. Err, other than "don't be a pedophile", I suppose.
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Re: Cheerful News
« Reply #439 on: December 26, 2013, 09:20:41 AM »

Alan Turing has been granted a pardon for liking dudes, nearly 60 years after his death (and more than 60 years after his chemical castration).
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